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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies....
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.
We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution....
A ``decay in the social contract'' is detectable
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
-- James Madiso...
every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
-- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Governme...
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. -- Mohandas Gandhi
The real point of audits is to instill fear, not to extract revenue

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